New Texas Senate Report Is Bad News for Struggling Ted Cruz

Things aren’t looking good for notorious Republican Party hardliner-in-a-hardline-state Ted Cruz’s re-election hopes.

The Cook Political Report has just updated its assessment of the Texas Senate race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican” amid what appear to be significant signs of momentum behind Democrat Colin Allred’s campaign.

Even among Republicans, the forecaster reports that Allred—“a Black football captain at Baylor University who played for the Tennessee Titans before working in the Obama Justice Department and compiling a center-left record as a three-term congressman from a business-minded Dallas seat”–is widely recognized as an exceptionally strong candidate.

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